I now view life as a complex and unpredictable affair that cannot be mastered. It can be embraced. It can be negotiated more or less skillfully. But mastered? Not a chance.

However smart and determined you are, your life is always going to consist of light and darkness, joy and sadness, good or bad, up and down, yang and yin.

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

Fight the darkness. Fight for the light.

You are the least-alone person I have ever known. Your heart has always included within it everyone who let you love them, and many who did not.

Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.

Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well.

I found myself compelled, like this weird, shameful compulsion to draw cute animals.

Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.

For every man, peace of soul is precious.

Language is the archives of history.